It can also contribute to empower producers through a self-diagnosis and assessment of their system’s level of transition and performances. TAPE is meant to provide evidence to policy makers and other stakeholders on how agroecology can contribute to sustainable food and agricultural systems.īy providing data and analysis on different development objectives, TAPE can enable inter-sectorial and inter-ministerial cooperation. The tool was designed to remain simple and to require minimum training and data collection. It applies a stepwise approach at the household/farm level but it also collects information and provides results at a community and territorial scale. To respond to these mandates, FAO and a large number of partners have developed the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE).īased on various existing assessment frameworks, TAPE is a comprehensive tool that aims to measure the multi-dimensional performance of agroecological systems across the different dimensions of sustainability. The need for harmonized evidence on agroecology was a systematic recommendation from the various global and regional consultations on agroecology organized by FAO between 20, and specifically requested by FAO governing bodies in 2018. However, these results often remain fragmented in case studies, isolated experiences or field observations, usually based on heterogeneous methods and data as well as differing scales and timeframes. There is an increasing amount of evidence showing the positive impacts of agroecology on the environment, on biodiversity, on farmers’ incomes, on resilience, and on adaptation and mitigation to climate change. Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE)

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